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Thanks for posting this explanation. I am curious about that part: > inadvertently blocked all mentions of the phrase "lamebook" on Facebook. Inadvertently se

Thanks for posting this explanation. I am curious about that part: > inadvertently blocked all mentions of the phrase "lamebook" on Facebook. Inadvertently seems to imply that this was not voluntary, more like the result of some "misclick". Is that so? Are there such powerful control tools at Facebook which use is not under strict review? If it was inadvertent, I think there ought to be serious policy revision regarding the use of these big brother tools at Facebook ;)

andreyf 16y ago
Hypothesis: Thousands of people around the world mis-flag content for a variety of reasons every day. One of the outsourced content-reviewers working for a consultancy hired by facebook made a mistake in handling the copyright infringement flag, and blocked the site. It wasn't noticed by anyone until the TechCrunch story went up.